🏆 Finalist for TIME’s 2023 Person of the Year
🎭 screen actor on premium studio & network projects
🎵 singer on stage & #GRAMMY-nommed recordings
🎤 voice actor for publicly traded & global brands
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Everyone who plays a role in calculating, developing, designing, planning, programming, producing, testing, and QAing every element and aspect of a mission contributes their best #human effort and knowledge to a project, hoping it will be enough for success. And, more importantly, that the humans aboard will return safely with new data collected with which to inform and enhance our collective understanding about the #Universe and #Earth’s place therein.
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The U.S. is in a precarious period of its own as funding and support for #science are eroding. Science, currently, isn’t always perceived as a practice essential for public good and shared global benefit for humanity’s progress, but a means to increase corporate profit and shareholder value.
Seeing the small boats gather near the splashdown for recovery of the astronauts, I think of my great uncle, an engineer who worked on the NASA-led Project #Apollo.
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As I watch today’s #Artemis reentry and #splashdown streaming live, I marvel at the collective power of #human intellect and knowledge when collaboration, #research, and #trust in #mathematics & #engineering are tested through spaceflight.
While I always hope for a successful #space mission, the reentry process seems an especially precarious period because the Columbia disaster remains a vivid historical moment for me, demarcated by where I was and what I was doing when the tragedy occurred.
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Never gonna clean it up,
Never gonna wipe it down,
Never gonna rush around and disinfect, too…
Socks, underwear, sheets, towels,
These items are soiled by frequent use.
Washing of laundry will commence by tired hands,
hanging, drying upon racks, folding and storing.
At one of my #Easter singing gigs, the message used the humble #egg as a symbolic #metaphor. Part of the discourse made reference to a shattering egg and I thought immediately of Humpty Dumpty.
Then I began to wonder why #HumptyDumpty became an anthropomorphic egg when the #MotherGoose nursery rhyme doesn’t mention calcium carbonate ovoids at all. 🤔
And now I will always associate a children’s poem and #entropy and #horses and #men failing to assemble a #puzzle with a Christian festival day. 🥚